Establishing a Culture of
Achievement
Planning for Success:
lesson planning, learning styles and
teaching strategies
Session #3 in our Series
Overview of the Day
• Review of Session #2
• Brief review of concepts and ideas from
Sessions #1 and #2
• Sharing of lesson plans/activities/experiences
based upon Session #2
• Naturalist Intelligence
• What activities could support this
Intelligence?
Another busy day
• Please engage actively by talking to your
partner when asked.
• Please be prepared to share from each site
several times during the session.
• If you have never spoken before in a session,
try to share something today.
Responsibilities at each site
• We will ask you to contribute to our overall
discussion about 5 times.
• You will not answer all questions at the same
time.
• Please wait until we ask you.
So that you can prepare --• Question 1: How do Gagné’s 9 Events help
you as you plan for teaching?
• Question 2: Why is Interpersonal Intelligence
important, not only in the classroom, but in
life?
• Question 3: Sharing of a) using a text from
your classes, b) focusing one of the 9 Events
and c) making it more interpersonal.
A review of Session #2
• Gagne’s 9 Events:
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Gain attention
Describe the goal
Stimulate recall of prior knowledge
Present the material to be learned
Provide guidance for learning
Elicit performance practice
Provide informative feedback
Assess performance
Enhance retention and transfer
Question #1
• How do Gagné’s 9 Events help you as you plan
for teaching?
• What is challenging about the 9 Events?
• Do you have any questions about them?
• We’ll hear from each of the 3 sites.
Question #2
• Why is Interpersonal Intelligence important,
not only in the classroom, but in life?
• What things can we do in the classroom to
help develop it?
• This is a general question – we are not sharing
experiences yet.
• We’ll hear from the three sites.
Question #3
• Question 3: Sharing of. . .
– a) using a text from your classes,
– b) focusing one of the 9 Events and
– c) making it more interpersonal.
– Once again, we’ll hear from each of the 3 sites.
Today’s Focus
• Naturalist Intelligence
• Non-linguistic representation
• Cues, Quotations, Advance Organizers
What is Naturalist Intelligence?
• Look at the “Common Characteristics” from
the handout.
• Share with a partner.
• Is Naturalist Intelligence strong for you?
• Can you give an example of a student you
have had who had strong Naturalist
Intelligence?
Some indicators of
Naturalist Intelligence
• The individual:
– Is bothered by pollution
– Enjoys having pets
– Likes to be outside
– Likes to learn about nature
– Notices things / changes in nature
– Very conscious of weather patterns
A question for us all. . .
• Is naturalist intelligence a “true” 8th
intelligence?
• Or. . . Is it an interest?
• Couldn’t this be said about many of the
intelligences such as: rhythmic/musical,
mathematical etc.?
• Your thoughts – from all three sites.
Some Best Practices from Research
• Non-linguistic representations
• Cues, Questions, Advance Organizers
Non-linguistic representations
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You already know about these.
Graphs
Venn Diagrams
Pie Charts
Etc.
Can include words –
but the visual is as important
Healthy
lifestyle
• Brings
Healthy
body and
mind
• Giving us
Longer life
and greater
wellbeing
• Greater
wellbeing
Less words – more imagery
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Greater Wellbeing
Weighing the balance
Person1
Person2
Cues, questions, advance organizers
• Cues = clues, guidelines and/or tips
• Advance organizers can include stimulating
background information and prior knowledge.
Also can include information to encourage
students to predict or try to figure out what is
coming next.
A focus on questions
• Questions can arise from many topic areas
including:
– Things/people
– Actions
– Events
– States of being
• From Classroom Instruction that Works, Marzano,
Pickering and Pollack, 2001
Things/people
• What action does X or Y usually do?
• How is X usually used?
• What is X a part of?
Actions
• What usually happens with X or Y?
• What effect does one action have on another?
Working from the Sample Texts
• Back to Say Hello 6, page 113
– “Pichit and Sam’s plans”
• What questions could you ask students?
– About things or people
– About actions
– About events?
Sharing from each site.
Final contributions from each site
• What are your ideas about asking questions?
• What makes a question a “good question”?
Assignment for Next Time
• Observe carefully your students and your
classes. Reflect on the following questions
and bring examples, if you can. Verbal
examples are fine – you don’t need to have
something written down:
– Are there ways you can increase access to
Naturalistic Intelligence in your classes?
– Can you show ways that you use questions to help
students find their own answers?
Good luck until next time
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Friday, 1 March
Ajarn Shei will be here to work with you.
Teach Well, Reflect Well – Do good work!
Best wishes until I see you again.